GUI tools would be Enterprise Manager, DBA Studio (both Oracle
products for DBAs) and TOAD (by Quest). I would stick to the command
line mode for now using SQLPLUS (Oracle program). If you learn on a
GUI, then teach them, then they are going to want those tools as well.
They are not toys, they are for administrators and developers.
I don't know about evaluation software since my employeer bought
everthing. I think you can get something from Oracle that lets you
evaluate it, check their website.
Get a Dummies or learn in 30 days type book that gives you an overall
explanation of how things work, then get something as a reference
where you can look up the exact syntax for the commands that might be
slightly different from what you know.
Erwin Moller <since_humans_read_this_I_am_spammed_too_much_at_spamyourself.com> wrote in message news:<402a5057$0$559$e4fe514c_at_news.xs4all.nl>...
> Hi group!
>
> This is my situation: I offered a few friends who work in some office
> (financial department) to help them out.
> They have to start using a datawarehouse now, but seriously lack basic SQL
> knowledge, which is a problem because they actually have to check the
> reliability of that data (Planning & Control devision).
>
> So I offered them to teach them some basics. Just a short hands-on course
> with some datatypes, tabledesign, prim. keys, foreign keys, etc.
> Nothing fancy.
>
> They were all very happy, but then the following problem arose: They want me
> to do it on an Oracle database because all their software runs on that.
>
> The problem is I never worked with Oracle before besides 5 minutes on SQL*
> years ago.
> But I am experienced with databasedesign/usage but not on Oracle.
>
> my background:
> PostgeSQL 7.X : I know Postgresql quite well and worked with that for years
> happily.
> M$ SQL Server (7 I think)
> MySQL
> Access (If you can call that a database)
> and a few more obscure perl/php libs for flatfile database.
>
> My question (you guessed):
> How well equiped I am to teach some basics on SQL when I use Oracle?
> I heard PostgreSQL is a little similar to Oracle. Is that true? (That would
> make me happy.)
> What do I need to create a few tables?
> Is there some visual GUI to Oracle database? (I only know commandline SQL*)
> What websites are good for a quickstart?
> Can I download some evaluationversion for free? (I have access to Linux
> Redhat8 and NT4 and Windows2000 Professional)
>
> I hope somebody can get me ontrack with this.
>
> I know how annoying it can be when somebody drops into a newsgroup with
> questions like this (happens to me all the time in c.l.java.*), so please
> forgive me for that. :-)
>
> Thank a lot for your time!
>
> Regards,
> Erwin Moller
Received on Wed Feb 11 2004 - 16:00:53 CST
